Our Work

Our coalition was formed after research about the lynching death of Samuel “Mingo Jack” Johnson in Eatontown NJ in 1886. In April of 2019 Tim and Rainy Hartley, members of the Racial Justice Task Force of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, visited the Legacy Museum and Memorial in Montgomery and returned to New Jersey with the determination to help form the type of coalition here in NJ that EJI was requesting.

Through our Community Remembrance Project, we seek to honor victims of racial terror lynching and reflect more honestly on the history and legacy of racial and economic injustice in our community. We aim to raise awareness and inspire action through dialogue, community education, and public memorials.

  1. Completing the EJI Historical Marker and Soil Collection Projects

  2. Bringing awareness to and a forum for learning about race and race-based hatred

  3. Identifying, naming, and uprooting systemic racism

  4. Working to tell a more complete narrative about the American Experience